UNREALISTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unrealistic mean? 

• UNREALISTIC (adjective)
  The adjective UNREALISTIC has 1 sense:

1. not realistic

  Familiarity information: UNREALISTIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNREALISTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not realistic

Context example:

prices at unrealistic high levels

Similar:

chimerical (produced by a wildly fanciful imagination)

delusive; false (inappropriate to reality or facts)

fantastic; wild (fanciful and unrealistic; foolish)

kafkaesque (characterized by surreal distortion and a sense of impending danger)

phantasmagoric; phantasmagorical; surreal; surrealistic (characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions)

Also:

impossible (not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with)

impractical (not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters)

unreal (lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria)

Antonym:

realistic (aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are)

 Context examples 

Anxiety disorder characterized by intense, unrealistic, persistent fear and avoidance of an object, activity, or situation.

(Phobia, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)